Photograph
byStanley
Toogood
EMPTY NOW AND OBSOLETE, NASSAU'S FORTS ONCE ROARED WITH GUNFIRE ANDECHOED
TOPIRATE
OATHS
Send a "King's flagg for the forte," wrote a Bahama governor as early as 1672. Nassau then was a "neste ofEnglish
pyrates."
They
preyed,
intime,
notonly
on the French and Spanish, but on ships of their own country. King George I sent Captain Woodes Rogers tosuppress
them;
hehanged
nine
buccaneers
onone
scaffold set up at old Fort Nassau. This sentry in colonial garb is on duty at Fort Charlotte.